Community Blooms
Community Blooms
Community Ecology Institute
Roxana Segovia-Beltran and Mohsin Zaidi
44 minutes Posted Jun 28, 2021 at 8:45 pm.
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Harvest Unite: https://www.harvestunite.org/ 


Definition of Important terms

  • Cooperative: “Cooperatives are people-centred enterprises owned, controlled and run by and for their members to realise their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations” (International Cooperative Alliance)
  • Curandera (f)/curandero (m): “a traditional native healer/shaman found in Latin America, the United States and Southern Europe. The curandero's life is dedicated to the administration of remedies for mental, emotional, physical and spiritual illnesses.” (Wikipedia)
  • Mutual aid: “Mutual aid is when everyday people get together to meet each other’s needs, with the shared understanding that the systems we live in are not meeting our needs and that we can meet them together, right now, without having to pressure power structures to do the right thing.” (Joel Izlar, University of Georgia School of Social Work)


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